[expert] WindowManker Menu

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi All, I am not really a WindowMaker user, but sometimes I like looking at different Window Manages, but when i go into WindowMaker, I get a error The Applications Menu could not be loaded. Look at the console output for a detailed description of the error Does anyone knkow of a simple fix

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 9:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use kweather to track what is happening in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Seems to work just fine. I go back and forth between MDK 9.1 and XP throughout the day, so I don't notice any long-term use related problems. It seems to me that when I went

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi Anne, This is very puzzling. The configuration only offers me 'Look up your ICAO code'. The box requires a 4-digit code, which I don't know. When I move on to the select page, the search facility only offers me Federal, States and Territories. Entering a UK town, city or county in the

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Ray Warren
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:50:08AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 9:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use kweather to track what is happening in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Seems to work just fine. I go back and forth between MDK 9.1 and XP throughout the day, so I don't notice any

[expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, Just working out the mandrake mirror situation, especially i like the extras such as the contrib stuff, and other extras that are normally in the Mandrake mirror such as http-naat .. O.K. in the past I have been using http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.2 but the mirror

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Birkoff
another problem with kweather: You can't set the taskbar applet to show only the weather icon and the temperature (I am not really interested in windspeed and air pressure). the only way is to compile the applet from the source and to modify it by yourself. On Sunday 26 October 2003 23:12,

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Charlie M.
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 9:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use kweather to track what is happening in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Seems to work just fine. I go back and forth between MDK 9.1 and XP throughout the day, so I don't notice any long-term use

Re: [expert] Devfsd

2003-10-27 Thread AAW
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 03:26 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd

Re: [expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same

2003-10-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Denis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Williamson wrote: Hi Everyone, Just working out the mandrake mirror situation, especially i like the extras such as the contrib stuff, and other extras that are normally in the Mandrake mirror such as http-naat .. O.K. in the past I have

[expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account once for about three years, with no problems, until one day I could no longer connect

[expert] System Stalls

2003-10-27 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, My Samba box stalls after some usage, mapped drives disappear and users can't write or read from drives. The stalls happen randomly. I'm running 2.4.19-16mdksmp and Samba 2.2.7a-9.2mdk. May I ask is this a kernel bug or Samba bug? Does anyone know a fix for it? I checked the memory from BIOS,

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 27 Oct 2003 5:18 pm, Charlie M. wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 9:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use kweather to track what is happening in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Seems to work just fine. I go back and forth between MDK 9.1 and XP

[expert] TV card recommendations

2003-10-27 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Well, this may be a post better sent to the newbie lists but since I've come to respect the posters on this list, please allow me a little latitude to ask people who's opinion I value a simple question :) My wife wants a TV card for Christmas so she can take videos off of our analog camcorder

Re: [expert] TV card recommendations

2003-10-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 27 October 2003 02:30 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Well, this may be a post better sent to the newbie lists but since I've come to respect the posters on this list, please allow me a little latitude to ask people who's opinion I value a simple question :) My wife wants a TV

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread Michael Holt
Daniel Anderson mused: Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account once for about three years, with no problems, until one

[expert] TCP receive window

2003-10-27 Thread Ruben Sajnovetzky
Hi folks ! I'm looking for information about how to configure TCP receive window in a Linux based system (Mandrake 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp) because I have an application which needs to download huge data pieces in small time frames. Does anyone know how to do that ? Thanks

[expert] Mounting a WebDAV drive via davfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Schwartz Avi
I have a Mdk 9.1 box which is running Apache + WebDAV. I can mount the drive from OS X and all works fine. When I try to do the same from a Mdk 9.2 machine, the mount seems to work fine but then two strange things happen: 1) Trying to list the files in the mounted directory gives me a

Re: [expert] TCP receive window

2003-10-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hi folks ! I'm looking for information about how to configure TCP receive window in a Linux based system (Mandrake 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp) because I have an application which needs to download huge data pieces in small time frames. Does anyone know how to do that ? Here's a good link:

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 15:13, Michael Holt wrote: Daniel Anderson mused: Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Phil G.
I can't figure out how to start kweather. I have kdetoys 3.1-5 installed. Does it work with this version? Phil -- Using Mandrake Linux 9.1 www.mandrakesoft.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:28:57 -0500 Phil G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't figure out how to start kweather. I have kdetoys 3.1-5 installed. Does it work with this version? Just did it... right-click on TaskBar, Add-Applet-Kweather Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] UNIX/Linux Admin in New York City Area

2003-10-27 Thread Dave Seff
I know this may look like spam, but if any of you are in the NYC are and are looking for a Full time UNIX(sun)/Linux (Mandrake) job, Contact me off this list, I have a spot opening up and I don't really want to pay a headhunter. -Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread lduvall
I have been using Verizon DSL for over a year. Set it up under Windows 98/2k. When I installed MDK 9.1 on my new Dell it connected to the internet without a hitch! Rarely I have had problems, but very rarely. I have two machines with 9.1 and both can connect as reliably as the various flavors of

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
NopesNo problem with verizon-dsl. I use the adsl package for connecting (it requires username password). Cool thing is that i have an internal network (home of about 4 nodes, windoze, gatewaty is Mandrake), when no one is using the network, it kind of goes to sleepand the moment someone

Re: [expert] TCP receive window

2003-10-27 Thread Ruben Sajnovetzky
Thanks to all the answers I got. This is the info I need, I will put in practice and give feedback as soon as I get. At 03:51 PM 10/27/2003 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: Hi folks ! I'm looking for information about how to configure TCP receive window in a Linux based system (Mandrake

Re: [expert] TV card recommendations

2003-10-27 Thread lorne
On Monday 27 October 2003 12:30 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Well, this may be a post better sent to the newbie lists but since I've come to respect the posters on this list, please allow me a little latitude to ask people who's opinion I value a simple question :) My wife wants a TV

Re: [expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same

2003-10-27 Thread antonovich
Mate, If you haven't yet then go to the plf.zarb.org site and follow the instructions for setting up urpmi. There are various different kinds of repository (or whatever its called). Some have what is on the disk, some updates, some illegal stuff (like stuff to allow watching dvds, which is

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 14:05, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 15:13, Michael Holt wrote: Daniel Anderson mused: Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 27 October 2003 10:16 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account once for about three

Re: [expert] LG CDRoms

2003-10-27 Thread Eric Huff
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It had hit cooker 3 times instead. I will reply to GC and tell him. I think its really time to fix sympa ;) I am surprised it made it to expert at all with cooker in the To field. I have never seen an email go to more than one mandrake list.

[expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
Xscreensaver is installed on my machine: xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk, but the screen savers are not showing up in KDE Control Center/Appearance Themes/Screen Saver. And this is with a reboot of the machine (not related) and several reboots of X. Now, is there something that I am supposed to do to

Re: [expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver

2003-10-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rob Blomquist wrote: Xscreensaver is installed on my machine: xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk, but the screen savers are not showing up in KDE Control Center/Appearance Themes/Screen Saver. And this is with a reboot of the machine (not related) and several reboots of X. Now, is there something that I